Daily life in 17th century London comes alive again -- online -- through the diary of Samuel Pepys. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Phil Gyford about a project to put a literary and historical ...

Samuel Pepys wrote about taverns being full of gadabouts during a plague in 1665.

The reblogging of 17th-century Londoner Samuel Pepys’ diary concludes today One of the more unique sites on the internet is getting ready to post its final update. Since 2003, Phil Gyford has ...

In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period ...

The book is therefore a sort of ‘Pepys Made Easy, ‘ a short cut to the mastery of an immensely complicated biographical topic.

A former hall house where diarist Samuel Pepys is reputed to have enjoyed a 'night of drunken debauchery' is now on the market for £1.35m. Vernacular hall houses were traditional in the south ...

In 1703 a retired widower named Samuel Pepys died in a London suburb. He had risen from humble beginnings to occupy naval positions of immense power. For a time, as Secretary to the Admiralty, he ...

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), the famous English diarist and naval administrator, had a penchant for fancy French clothes - although he described a fellow France-loving Englishman as 'an absolute ...

A collection of French fashion engravings offers precious new insights into the life of Samuel Pepys years after his premature final diary entry. The prints show the tailor’s son remained ...

The star claimed Elliott, who has a passion for the Great Fire of London and the writer Samuel Pepys, was left 'crestfallen' when an officious employee refused to let him view Pepys' world-famous ...

Diarist Samuel Pepys - who chronicled the Great Fire of London and plague - is being honoured with a £2 coin. And if past form is anything you go on it could be selling for a lot more than that ...